Words I’ve never said.
If I need to clear my head, I blow my nose.
Best intentions. The gym membership, the diet, renewing old friendships, keeping up correspondences, rereading the classics, make that reading the classics, and the list goes on. We sincerely, honestly, unquestioningly want to do these things. So, how come then, we don’t?
In one study Good Intentions Versus Bad Behavior “the researchers sought to take a new look at why old
habits seem to prevail over our attempts to change our behavior. Their
findings suggest that even though the strength of an old habit may fade
over time, our memory for it will be stronger then any new good
intentions that succeed it.”
Aha, so that explains it. If I haven’t done the “good for me” stuff my memory of NOT doing it supersedes my desire to DO it. That works for me.
We’ve got the Flat Belly Diet, The Cabbage Diet, Acai Berry Diet, Special K diet, The Bernie Madoff go to prison for 150 years and see if you feel like eating diet, The Ruth Madoff I can’t get served, let alone fed, in any restaurant diet. Just to name a few. Every diet works.
